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Here's something you don't see very often in NASCAR: full-time Nationwide Series drivers qualified 1-2 and took six of the top 10 grid spots for Saturday afternoon's 5-Hour Energy Drink 200 at Dover International Speedway. The race is scheduled for a 2:30 p.m. start on ESPN.

Chevrolet driver Austin Dillon and Ford driver Sam Hornish Jr. have the front row for the 200-lap, 200-mile race at the 1-mile, high-banked concrete oval. Dillon won the pole at 152.951 miles per hour for his grandfather, team owner Richard Childress. Hornish, driving for Roger Penske, was second-fastest at 152.840 mph.

The man most people expect to win the race -- Kyle Busch in a Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing -- qualified third at 152.756 mph. Nationwide regular Alex Bowman starts fourth at 152.717 mph in a Toyota for RAB Racing and Cup star Kasey Kahne starts fifth in a Hendrick Motorsports Chevy at 152.252 mph.

Cup driver Joey Logano in a Ford for Penske, Nationwide regular Regan Smith in a Chevy for JR Motorsports, Truck Series star Ty Dillon (younger brother of the pole winner) in a Chevy for Richard Childress Racing, Cup star Matt Kenseth in a Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing and Nationwide driver Brian Scott in a Chevy for RCR round out the top-10 starters.

Busch has won six of the nine Nationwide races he's entered this year, including the last two at Darlington and Charlotte. (He also won in the spring at Phoenix, Bristol, Fontana and Fort Worth). All told, he's won a record 57 Nationwide races in 252 career starts, and won the 2009 series championship.